diff --git a/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/staticanalysis/ReplaceDeprecatedRuntimeExecMethods.java b/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/staticanalysis/ReplaceDeprecatedRuntimeExecMethods.java
index d56a1a14f..221528549 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/staticanalysis/ReplaceDeprecatedRuntimeExecMethods.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/staticanalysis/ReplaceDeprecatedRuntimeExecMethods.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 import org.openrewrite.java.tree.J;
 import org.openrewrite.java.tree.JavaType;
 import org.openrewrite.java.tree.Javadoc;
+import org.openrewrite.staticanalysis.java.JavaFileChecker;
 
 import java.time.Duration;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
@@ -48,7 +49,9 @@ public class ReplaceDeprecatedRuntimeExecMethods extends Recipe {
 
     @Override
     public TreeVisitor<?, ExecutionContext> getVisitor() {
-        return Preconditions.check(new UsesJavaVersion<>(18), new JavaIsoVisitor<ExecutionContext>() {
+        return Preconditions.check(
+                Preconditions.and(new UsesJavaVersion<>(18), new JavaFileChecker<>()),
+                new JavaIsoVisitor<ExecutionContext>() {
             @Override
             protected JavadocVisitor<ExecutionContext> getJavadocVisitor() {
                 return new JavadocVisitor<ExecutionContext>(this) {
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/staticanalysis/ReplaceDeprecatedRuntimeExecMethodsTest.java b/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/staticanalysis/ReplaceDeprecatedRuntimeExecMethodsTest.java
index 18de6d4ef..d8db2c8df 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/staticanalysis/ReplaceDeprecatedRuntimeExecMethodsTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/staticanalysis/ReplaceDeprecatedRuntimeExecMethodsTest.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 
 import static org.openrewrite.java.Assertions.java;
 import static org.openrewrite.java.Assertions.version;
+import static org.openrewrite.kotlin.Assertions.kotlin;
 
 class ReplaceDeprecatedRuntimeExecMethodsTest implements RewriteTest {
     @Override
@@ -297,6 +298,23 @@ void method() throws IOException {
         );
     }
 
+    @Test
+    void doNotChangeKotlinFiles() {
+        rewriteRun(
+          version(
+            //language=kotlin
+            kotlin(
+              """
+                class A {
+                    fun method() {
+                        val process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("ls -a")
+                    }
+                }
+                """
+            ), 18)
+        );
+    }
+
     @Test
     void javadoc() {
         rewriteRun(